Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Eire) - Supreme Court

Date: 05/14/2010

Subject: The Supreme Court decides in favour of the compatibility of Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1990, which provides the compulsoriness of life imprisonment for homicide, with the constitutional principle of proportionality of the punishment and with the principle of the judge’s discretionary power, as well as with the rights provided by article 5 of the ECHR, also applying the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg.

Parties: Paul Lynch v. the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland and the Attorney General e Peter Whelan v. the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland and the Attorney General

Original language: Irish

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Justice - Art. 49 Proportionality of penalties

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